I earn a 6 figure salary...

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Just reading another thread and pretty much every post is going on about "6 figure salary" - as if this is some sort of meaningful marker.

But obviously there's a massive difference between someone on £100k and someone on £900k. So by "6 figure salary" are they just essentially saying they earn around £100k? If they earned £250k, how is it acceptable to describe that?

That was meant to read private sector

So after tax, £5400 a month>

We earn nearly that between myself and my husband and we are bloody skint. Seriously.

I can understand if two people are earning 6 figures that's a lot, but if your mortgage is £2k and your childcare is £2k leaves £1400 a month for everything else. Hardly rolling in it?

It’s certainly occurred to you to highlight it though 😂

The “not rich in London” terms is overplayed.

Unless you have a partner who doesn’t earn at all, one person clearing £100k puts you in a very decent place. Everyone I know in this bracket in their late 30s has a decent house, big mortgage, big renovation costs, big nursery fees and still manages holidays etc. But none of them could afford for the other parent to stay home.

There has to be more that earn above £100k I mean NQ lawyers in the regions are on £65k now if not more.

i know a lot of people on hefty money.

You put more into savings per month than I earn per month 😅 It’s fascinating how the benchmark for wealth can shift so much from person to person.

It all so depends on your circumstances, doesn't it? £100k if you live in central London and have five kids and are a SP is very different from a single person with no kids living in Sheffield on £900k.

However, if you're on £100k you're still well above the average income wherever you live, but wouldn't necessarily have more disposable income than someone with a lesser salary but different circumstances.

this is such an important point. I started uni literally not knowing how much various jobs earn, apart from vague family noises to “be a lawyer” (which I didn’t manage FYI lol). I genuinely had no idea about the relative warning potential of different fields and what was possible it you couldn’t manage to be a lawyer.

@Itisasecret - except it has got to the point that in some sectors there is a recruitment crisis, because too many talented people are now avoiding working in sectors society has a massive need for and opting for areas where there is less immediate need, but greater opportunity for personal enrichment. That’s the sign of a sick society, imvho, not one that understands how to value people properly. And the opportunities for personal enrichment in the financial services sector, which appears to have included turning industrial scale blind eyes towards money laundering and corruption and allowing dirty money to flood into the UK in particular, have been inflated for a very long time, to the long term detriment of the entire world.

@gf4567hfdd spot on.

Don't know love. We are on around 40K with one child but no mortgage and we're absolutely fine. Living in a cheap part of the country helps massively.

I've got a SEVEN figure salary.

The Term Time Only contract/Part Time Equivalent means there's 59p at the end of the other numbers.

I like thinking that at least half of the six figure salary posters are actually trying to hide that they're earning £13,267.68 a year.

I was reading some really interesting stuff and salaried in Scotland and equality yesterday and your right, women high earners are a significantly smaller percentage of women than men are of men. Which is a bit depressing.

Sorry on salaries

Dammit, I meant £9,267.68.

Can't even write my own jokes. (stomps off in embarassment)

That's not a fair statement, I grew up in a very abusive home and have battled anxiety and depression for years as a result. I fought really hard to better myself to make sure I gave my son a better life than I had. I'm not a 6 figure earner but at 35 in the north I earn 70k which is more than enough.

Again bollocks.

I was raised by an addict, I have significant trauma in my background. My husband was raised by an addict and has a different type of trauma in his background.

We worked bloody hard to change the course of our paths and break those generational curses.

The ignorance that people who do well must’ve come from privilege has to stop.

I too find it strange. The lowest end of 6 figures is huge, so I presume it is just a shortcut to saying you're in the top 1%. Nobody says 5 figures.

I haven't looked at that thread, but I would presume IF you are going to mention your salary online you'd employ some kind of grouping: 100k+, 250k+, 500k+. What's the point otherwise?

@Itisasecret what @Perfect28 actually said was that low earners OFTEN work harder than high earners - not that they always or even mostly do.

Im not a high earner but my DP is and we both agree that I work harder than him. Not to say he hasn’t worked extremely hard to get where he is and I don’t begrudge him his job but it is true that once you make it, you sometimes have the freedom to set your hours, work from home, be flexible and you’re less likely to be working under someone. You’re also far less likely to be working in the public sector where hours are long and pay is low.

none of this is ALWAYS true of course but there’s no reason to find the idea that it’s often true challenging.

@Itisasecret your husband is the exception that proves the rule. Patterns of inequality in British society are really persistent. I mean, Angela Rayner left school as a pregnant teenager and worked as a carer but is now deputy leader of the opposition. The people running the country are still massively skewed towards public school, Oxbridge and privileged upbringing.

do any of you masturbate over these threads?
they're so vulgar and desperate, MN is pretty broken, lol.

what self respecting individual discusses their income on a public forum full of tabloid ghouls? A desperado, that's who!

Can you not grasp the point that just because this is your situation, it’s actually quite rare? You’re betraying your roots by essentially saying that all your fellow council estate dwellers could have done the same as you if they’d just pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and stopped being so lazy.

You worked very hard but it was much harder for you to get where you are because of your background. It takes a heck of a lot of motivation to get yourself out of it and we’ll done for doing that but most people don’t have the energy.

I agree that it’s total rubbish. My DH is on a high 6 figure salary and it always hits me when on parenting threads and others when people speak of “eating dinner as a family” and both parents doing bath time and taking turns to go out to do their “hobby” in the evening…none of those things have EVER happened in our family. He works 14 hour days endlessly!

The suggestion that people earning 100k+ plus just sit on their arse is what I have an issue with. They don’t.
There are people in the private sector earning 100k who don't work particularly hard though, they're busy and there's usually an element of pressure but it's not hard work.
My neighbour earns over £100k, works mostly from home usually school hours never works weekends, making phone/zoom calls for a few of hours, then a couple of hours golfing followed by an hour in the office, once a weekish an in person meeting in a swanky hotel accompanied by a lavish lunch or dinner and drinks. He's the first to say he's on to a good thing.

Oxbridge, check!
Six figure, check!
"we worked bloody hard", check!
SEVEN FIGURE SALARY, check!

If you earn so much simply sitting on MN all day awaiting tragic salary posts, I call bullshit.